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What
Is It?
The
Internet is a network of computers transferring data along
communication lines.
History
The
Internet was started in the late 1960's as a response to
the Cold War - a defense research network and fail-safe communications
system in case of a national emergency. It originally connected
four universities: University of California at Los Angeles, Stanford
Research Center, University of California at Santa Barbara, and
the University of Utah. The Internet today consists of over 10,000
different computer services and networks operated by governments,
corporations and non-profits.
The World
Wide Web did not come into existence until the early 1990's.
Tim Berners-Lee,
working at the CERN in Switzerland, wanted to find a way to link
several of his research projects together. His willingness to share
his "hyperlink" ideas with others led the University of
Illinois (Champaign-Urbana) to utilize his ideas in creating Mosaic,
the first graphical browser.
Marc Andreesen,
a graduate student at the University of Illinois, saw commercial
potential for graphical browsers. Upon graduation, Marc teamed up
with Jim Clark to create Netscape. After several years of watching
Netscape's increasing success, Microsoft created Internet Explorer.
What is the
Internet composed of?
- email
-
world
wide web
- listservers
- newsgroups
- a new web
site is added every 4 seconds
- web traffic
doubles every 100 days
- over 300
million users
Links
http://www.w3c.org
http://www.webmonkey.com
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